To:L. B. KAMENEV

Via Caucasian Union CouncilTo Yuri

Written:Written December 14, 1904Published:First published in 1926 inLenin Miscellany V.

      Sent from Geneva to the Caucasus.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

      pages146b-147a.Translated:Martin Parker and Bernard IsaacsTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive

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DearComrade,

Manythanks for your letter and thebeginning(the end has not
yet reached us) of the article “Iskra’sMilitary
Campaign”. I was especially happy to receive your letter since we hear so
rarely from Russia, so rarely do people write us not “in duty bound” but
to exchange ideas. Please write more often and collaborate more closely
with our new organ, which we shall begin publishing in the near future(we are sending a detailed letter about the paper to the Caucasian League
with a request that it be passed on to you
				 too[1];

ask for it and bring it to the attention of as many comrades sharing the
Majority views as you possibly can). I would say that your article is
unquestionable evidence of your literary ability, and I ask you not to give
up writing. It is quite possible that even this article could be adapted
and revised for publication (in its present form, as you remarked yourself,
it is somewhat out of date). Try to answer this letter as soon as possible
and to establishdirectcontact with us by letter, to correspond
regularly. This is of utmost importance considering the scanty flow of
literary contributions from Russia. Write also about local affairs, and
what Majority literature you have seen.

Withcomradely greetings,Lenin

[1]SeeV. I. Lenin, “A Letter to the Comrades” (present edition, Vol. 7,
pp. 523–28).—Ed.